Duty Quote by Jed Mercurio

There is obviously a fascination with police procedure and stories about the police and there are other series that reflect that but what marks…

— Jason Watkins

Police thrillers are so widely read and police dramas so commonplace on television that many people think they have a good understanding of what…

— Daniel Horan

'Line of Duty' is a social realist drama, so it's set in a world that has the recognisable features of the authentic world we…

— Jed Mercurio

“The line between “police force” and “army” is narrow under the best of circumstances.”

— Mira Grant

'Line of Duty' had originally been conceived as a returnable drama, with the premise being that the fictional anticorruption unit AC-12 would move on…

— Jed Mercurio

When 'Line of Duty' started on BBC2, there was a feeling that it couldn't ever become a big show because the BBC2 drama budget…

— Jed Mercurio

I think a lot of officers go into that line of work because they have a calling for it. But at some point, they…

— Sam Jaeger

I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important…

— Sam Jaeger

But the reality is that the police serve a certain function, to maintain a certain status quo, and that's one of the things that…

— Oren Moverman

The police should be focused on policing criminal activity, and that's sort of the beginning, the middle and the end of it for me.

— Ted Wheeler

“The police are there to do the job, not to think about it,' was the line used by critics, the harshest of which were…

— Christine Nixon

Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career.

— Peter James